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I don't think we're being particularly creative now. how many of the 44 chances were clear cut or even half chances? Not many for me. admittedly every shot against us does seem to be going in at the minute which makes us look a lot more wasteful, but I don't buy the lots of shots = lots of chances/creativity = good performance line

From memory he made 1 very good save the rest were routine saves that if they had gone in would have been considered howlers

agreed. how many of those shots are actually clear cut or even half chances - not that many 45 shots or whatever in the last two games and we've forced the goalies into one meaningful save in that period the majority of the rest have been speculative at best

as jackdaww alludes to, its no good saying we created 25 chances or whatever, how many were actual clear cut or even half chances? nearly all our shots were from edge of the area straight down the goalies throat, their goalie didnt make a meaningful save

I'd like to know who all of bentekes consolation goals came against. Southampton away when we got hammered is the only one I can think of most of his goals secured us points or got us back into games youre talking out of your Arse on that point

Piss poor that the kids home kit isn't available til the end of September. Kids want it for the school holidays and their summer holidays

maybe this has already been discussed or i am missing something obvious but... why is Italy versus Spain already set in stone? why have certain group winners already arbitrarily been set to play certain group runners up when other group winners could play any old 3rd place team? wouldn't it make more sense to have the best performing group winner playing the worst performing third place team and so on, so that the worst performing group winners ended up playing some second placed teams? This could all be decided after the group games have finished as awhole As it is now, you could end up with a situation where Italy get max points from their group but have to play a second place team, when other group winners who have dropped points end up playing third placed teams on a system decided by chance as stated i could have missed something obvious in the structure of the tournament, but i cant quite get my head round it

i think it will be a bit of a non-event compared to previous protests, which undoubtedly benefited from the fact we were getting hammered in both games by the time the protest commenced i think its a lot easier to get people to kick off after 74 mins when we're getting smashed again than it is before a game has started

Yeah you might be right. I was just wondering why so many people appear to be absolving Tom Fox of any blame with the accounts even though he was around for 8 or 9 months if i have my timelines correct

surely the accounts will take into account Fox giving Lambert a new contract then sacking him then appointing Sherwood if it is up to May 2015?

hopefully you're on the wind up about WOBO awards. what on earth is it meant to mean? white of black origin awards??? like most subjects, you clearly haven't thought this through have you

yeah it turns out the franchise has been extended to October 2017 now, was announced in December apparently

perhaps, but then some other operators might pay their staff a proper wage (in the context of train drivers) meaning they don't have to cancel or delay nearly 1000 services over a 2 or 3 month period. and some other operators might not charge more on the southern section of the cross city line to travel to five ways/university than to new street, despite both stations requiring shorter journeys on the same services. I am aware of the infrastructure constraints that the TOC's are subjected to, particularly on the cross city line, but there service has still been p1ss poor imo and the two examples of poor service highlighted above should have been easily avoidable

London Midland's service on the cross city line has been pretty terrible in my experience as a regular user over the past 8 years (awful delays despite the massaged stats, farcical pricing (e.g. some shorter journeys more expensive than longer journeys on the cross city line, despite all services calling at the same stations), terrible implementation of the leaf fall timetable which saw them reinstating services due to awful planning etc etc etc) the franchise is up this year i think, or at least there are consultations going on in the early part of this year

Yep, which is why losing to them over 2 legs was more shameful than the other abysmal defeats that Lambert and others have presided over across the last 5/6 years

lol "excellent save", talk about hyperbole it was a bog-standard save that you would expect any goalkeeper to make that is not to say it was a mistake per se, just to point out you are going in the opposite direction of people claiming it was a bit of a clanger

Still love Dublin for the headbutt. Not sure I've ever met a Villa fan that doesn't. "Twisted" Villa fans, lol i don't - he cost us any chance of getting anything out of the game so if you're going to do that, he should have at least landed a proper headbutt rather than dropping the world's worst headbutt on him

the current villa reporter is a complete mug - another Albion fan who constantly has digs about the club and its fans why anyone buys the rag is beyond me, although they might not be able to much longer if its circulation keeps going through the floor (down to c. 25k in 2014, 25% down on previous year apparently, compared to 60-70k for the Liverpool and Manc papers)

Not relevant. As I said the patient may have seen other GPs at the practice. Also, the doctor shouldn't reveal information to someone just because they claim they are someone's manager. The relationship between the doctor and the manager is not relevant. Medical history isn't the issue here. Personal information is. I don't know what the Irish implementation of the Data Directive is called, but you can't reveal this kind of information without a much higher degree of trust than was demonstrated by the GP. The employee would need to consent (probably in writing) and the manager would need to make the request formally (also in writing). If there isn't an existing trust relationship (which there is here) then I'd also expect the GP or their admins to call the requestor and the patient before revealing any information. Can the receptionist get struck off as well? If so, I could just call your GP and say "Hi, I'm Mr Limpid and I have an appointment booked this week, but I can't remember when... can you confirm when it is please?" IF she/he confirms... receptionist sacked. What would a receptionist be struck off from? How is acknowledging the existence of a possible future event revealing personal information? If either of you worked for me, you'd be booked on a phishing awareness course by the end of the day I bet they're devastated they don't I know I am

It's all a bit of a nonsense though as not many people qualify in the top couple of categories and many of those that do choose to wait to purchase with mates who qualify further down - hence the reports of very few tickets being sold early doors for the semi and the phone lines/queues being chocka later on.

All ST' holders will get one so not sure why any ST holders are panicking. Also not sure why when we have less ST holders than tickets available they need to mess around with loyalty based on 10+ seasons, 5+ seasons etc, particularly when there is no apparent advantage to buying early rather than late in a particular window. I would understand it if the number of ST holders outweighed tickets available.

If that is the case and is a proper policy they need to publicise it. Similar to the re-assigning of tickets - it appears to be done at the discretion of the person you deal with as opposed to a proper policy one way or the other. All a bit of a shambles.

As many pointed out at the time they announced the criteria etc, they have made a right mess of distributing the tickets. Can see them having to allow ST's to buy additional tickets on a first-come first-served basis in order to achieve a sell-out.

**** on a level wIth carbone I've heard it all now Behind dublin hahaha After his first season I would have been pissed off of he left; now he has kept us up 2 years out of 3 and will (hopefully) Win us the fa cup I wouldn't begrudge him a move anywhere

way too complicated, should have just been ST with all cup games, then 3, then 2 then 1 staggered over a couple of weeks, then based on booking history